Lifeline Providers Offer 'Consensus Plan' for Migrating Subscribers to National Verifier
Lifeline wireless providers proposed an "industry consensus plan" for the migration of subscribers to a national verifier of consumer eligibility for the low-income subsidy program. Subscribers should be migrated if their "income or program based eligibility can be confirmed" by…
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the national verifier using an appropriate database, said the Lifeline Connects Coalition (American Broadband & Telecommunications, Blue Jay Wireless, iWireless and Telrite), Boomerang Wireless, Sprint, True Wireless, TerraCom and YourTel America. Lifeline eligible telecom carriers "can confirm the income or program based eligibility of subscribers not found in such databases either by providing previously obtained documentation (for end users enrolled after February 17, 2016) or evidence of a successful annual recertification (for end users enrolled prior to February 17, 2016)," said their filing Friday in docket 11-42. They said their proposal was "consistent with" a recent proposal of TracFone Wireless, which last week said current Universal Service Administrative Co. plans for reverifying Lifeline eligibility under the national verifier would "cause millions of qualified low-income households to lose their Lifeline-supported service" (see 1706130026). A TracFone representative Monday agreed the industry proposals were consistent with each other. Deloitte responded to a USAC request for proposals to be the Lifeline national verifier, said a filing Friday on a meeting it had with Wireline Bureau staffers.